MHW over 10m sold already

[Mnementh]

outlawauron said:

Mnementh said:

As I wrote in that thread and here my initial prediction was rubbish and I dropped it before release (as you can see, my more positive posts were some time later). I gave no new prediction, as I did not know what it would be like. I only recognized that everything below 2M in Japan was super-negative and too low. And I don't want to give you a too hard time about a prediction that turned out to be removed from the truth, because that's what happens with predictions. But back then, PS fans were very conservative about predicting MH success especially in Japan, but now it just are the Nintendo fans that spread negativity. This revisionist history makes me upset.

That's the disconnect from here to now though. Most people didn't believe that they being super negative with predictions like 1.5-2m in Japan and 4m LT. While laughable now, that was a much more optimistic prediction compared to what a lot of people were throwing out there.

It's not revisionist history, but moved goalposts.

The revisionist part is that the Nintendo-fans were the negative one (or only them).

I understand that this seemed right at the time, as you have seen I fell into that trap too. Until I realized that Capcom never would've greenlight such an expensive project if they had expectations that low. And nobody can explain to me, they were fine with it, because of an uncertain growth in the west. No, I'm pretty sure (and was then), that Capcom calculated with at least 2M in Japan. I wasn't sure though, if they had it right, Capcom does blunders from time to time. That's why I abstained from predictions after I dropped my initial ones.